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May have been in this truck that this train hit, that this train crashed into. heres a quote from the congressman. there was, it looks like, a tractor trailer carrying trash that was hit by the train. i dont know that that crossing had guardrails or anything like that. im in the third car, is what he said, but all we felt was a very loud crash, and the truck is -- im looking at it right now. its on its side. theres trash strewn everywhere. not really hearing definitively, but im hearing there ar...

Somber mood about what happened and, again, we saw and have heard stories about some of the doctors including senator kennedy and congressman winstrop who are trained medical professionals prior to their careers as lawmakers but jumped off the train as soon as they were allowed by the capitol police and amtrak authorities to help some of the folks in this truck that the train hit and where the people were the most injured. we do not know for sure the condition of the other two. the latest word f...

Were taken off the train track. or off the train and transported to local hospitals. i want to give you the detail that im now getting. this is an incident update if you will on that amtrak train that came into contact with the truck that was on the tracks. a little bit more than two hours ago. 11:20 east coast time. crozet, virginia, just outside by about 12 to 15 miles, charlottesville. two amtrak crew members and two passengers were transported to a local hospital. were told with minor injuri...

Help those people who had been hurt in the dump truck that the train hit on the tracks. if you were just joining us, lets do a quick reset now of what has happened. because there are more facts to collect and we want to fold those in. so its been about two and a half hours now by my count that a train traveling upwards of 70 miles per hour according to people, witnesses on board the train. hit a dump truck, which you see the remnants of in the center of your screen there, center left, and that t...

Actually in journalism school. i was talking with them a little bit. your name, again, was julianne? >> yeah, im julianne. >> reporter: you told me that one of your friends moms lives near there. tell us what you know. >> well, right after the train in crozet happened, my friend was showing snap chats from her mom, showing where the train hit and showing paramedics come in ten minutes after it happened. >> reporter: did she say what she saw in terms -- we heard there was one fatality, possibly t...

It came to a stop jolt, kind of a jump. the lights went off. there was unpleasant electrical smell which filled the air. and, you know, the whole sequence of events where you wonder is there something nefarious going on? you see the accident dewe and this appears to be a vehicular accident. and there must be victims. i better get out there to help. that was kind of the rapid sequence. >> harris: wow. all right. dr. burgess, one of those who attended to the injured outside a truck that was on the...

House and the senate. we know that the leaders in the house, speaker paul ryan, the leader were on the train. they are okay. but the tragic news today that theres one american confirmed dead. somebody who was traveling on the truck that the train hit. and we also know that there was one person who was critically injured and taken to an area hospital who was also traveling in the truck. we also know now that congressman jason lewis of minnesota was transported to a hospital. we have a photo of hi...

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Northern california submerged between ventura and santa barbara counties. more in the midst of the devastation. >> reporter: im in montecito, hard hit by this flood that came down from the burn area left by the thomas fire. if you look right here, the remnants of a car, now just half a car mangled up. behind me the montecito inn, the front of it devastated. the sign broken apart. what happened with this high velocity flood, it goes from about 3,000 feet to sea level in no time here in montecito,...

More of the devastation. >> reporter: dave, christine, hard hit by this flood that came down from the burn area left by the thomas fire. it is fiery wake. if you see right here, the remnants of a car, now just half a car mangled up with trees and more. behind me, the historic inn, the front of it now devastated, the sign broken apart. what happened here with this high velocity flood, it goes from about 3,000 feet to sea level in no time here. they just worried about that and once that rain hit t...